Kids Food Favorites: 50 Healthy Homemade Recipes

From chicken nuggets and mac and cheese, to cheese crackers, toaster pastries, chocolate chip cookies, and fish sticks, I rounded up the best homemade kids food to help you feed your kids the food they want—but with more nutrition! These recipes are all kid-tested for flavor and vetted for straight-forward recipe methods.

Kids Food

The term “kids food” really just means that whatever the food is that we’re talking about is somehow more fun than “regular” food. So it could be a fun color, the taste could be sweeter (and therefore fun!) or the shape is more thoughtful. I’m of the mind that we don’t need to serve our kids special food to get them to eat it, but playing to their strengths with homemade versions of their favorite kids food can be a good tactic to try!

I rounded up 50 of my very favorite recipes for healthy kids food. They include:

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